DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 1ST!

INDIANA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DRAMA
and NEW FRONTIERS IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES
announces the creation of the
2008 IU BLACK PLAY LAB
July 18th â€" Aug 3rd, 2008
&
*mini-conference on Black Theatre*
Aug 1 â€" 3rd, 2008
Lee Norvelle Theatre & Drama Center
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Call for Papers MAPACA 2008
Children and Childhood Studies Section
Deadline for Submission: June 15, 2008

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
Annual Conference October 30 - November 2, 2008
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
For conference Information: www.mapacagazette.net
       
Group rate available until September 30, 2008. Subject to availability.
Reminder: Travel between the United States and Canada now requires a valid
passport

October 17-18, 2008
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

The North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing seeks to facilitate the
growth of a regional community of scholars in rhetoric and the teaching of
writing across North Carolina and surrounding areas. We also invite others
interested in discussing the building of community and the teaching of
writing to participate in the symposium. To accomplish this, the symposium
organizers have chosen the theme of “Composing Community” for the inaugural
meeting in 2008. We welcome proposals for panels and papers on a variety of
topics; proposals which embrace the conference's theme of “community” will
be given special consideration.

EAPSU 2008
Call for Papers

(Re)Connections: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Byways

The 2008 EAPSU (English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities) Conference will be held
at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania October 17-18, 2008.

We invite proposals from faculty and graduate students for presentations, roundtable
discussions, and workshops that address attempts to decrease fragmentation, create
connections, and bridge together unique and creative themes in academic work and life in higher
education.

International Conference
November 6-8, 2008, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

The Centre of Advanced Study in English, Jadavpur University, invites
abstracts of papers for an International Conference on the theme of travel
and travellers, to be held on 6-8 November 2008. Papers may address any of
the following range of themes, but should preferably be linked to a
particular travel text or texts, whether verbal, visual, or in other
material forms.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly
Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication
Editors: Andrew Mara and Byron Hawk
 
According to N. Katherine Hayles, we have always been posthuman. Ever since
the first social organization, the first use of fire, and the first
development of language, humans have lived in and with systems. Even before
its emergence as an academic field, professional and technical writers had
been writing and living in organizational systems. Even when the profession
is imagined as an isolated endeavor or end-of-the-process set of tasks,
technical writers still must operate in larger, complex rhetorical

**Deadline for abstracts has been extended to June 15, 2008.**

University of Colorado at Boulder
SEPTEMBER 19-20, 2008
Graduate Student Conference in association with the Department of English
and the American Literature Colloquium at CU-Boulder

Keynote Speakers:

Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland - College Park
Lisa Lowe, University of California - San Diego

Complicating the Compass: Displacing Directionality within American Studies